Definition of drying

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Drying (a.) Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room..

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Exsiccator :: Exsiccator (n.) An apparatus for drying substances or preserving them from moisture; a desiccator; also, less frequently, an agent employed to absorb moisture, as calcium chloride, or concentrated sulphuric acid..
Flake :: Flake (n.) A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things..
Drier :: Drier (n.) Drying oil; a substance mingled with the oil used in oil painting to make it dry quickly.
Exsiccant :: Exsiccant (a.) Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up.
Staddle :: Staddle (v. i.) A row of dried or drying hay, etc..
Gauntlet :: Gauntlet (n.) A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.
Towel :: Towel (n.) A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as the person after a bath..
Consolidate :: Consolidate (v. i.) To grow firm and hard; to unite and become solid; as, moist clay consolidates by drying..
Tedder :: Tedder (n.) A machine for stirring and spreading hay, to expedite its drying..
Curer :: Curer (n.) One who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc..
Insolation :: Insolation (n.) The act or process to exposing to the rays of the sun fro the purpose of drying or maturing, as fruits, drugs, etc., or of rendering acid, as vinegar..
Hack :: Hack (n.) A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc..
Gloom :: Gloom (n.) In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven..
Desiccant :: Desiccant (a.) Drying; desiccative.
Ustulation :: Ustulation (n.) The roasting or drying of moist substances so as prepare them for pulverizing.
Drying :: Drying (a.) Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry.
Ted :: Ted (v. t.) To spread, or turn from the swath, and scatter for drying, as new-mowed grass; -- chiefly used in the past participle..
Exsiccative :: Exsiccative (a.) Tending to make dry; having the power of drying.
Couch :: Couch (v. t.) To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying..
Creep :: Creep (v. t.) To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep..
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